“The hours are good but the minutes are lousy”
“The days go slowly but the years go quickly”
Any other such folk wisdom or quotes reflecting time-scale separation effects in time perception?
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“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.” - unconfirmed but likely Einstein quote
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This is confirmed. It’s from an actual paper he wrote in the 30s I believe
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Hemingway version of that is the famous one yeah, how do you go bankrupt? Slowly at first then all at once
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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”
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